TO DO:
- Check out this article from the Cascade Business News. Always nice to have a few of our own showcased! A combined 9 days… you two are amazing! (Read to find out what this means.)
- Consider whether you’d be willing to participate in one of two upcoming Challenge Day experiences that will be occurring at LPMS and SVMS. If you would be able to spend a day at one of these two schools during the week of Feb. 5 please let Robi or Scott know. If you have not been a part of a Challenge Day in the past, I would encourage you to consider seeing what it is all about… as you will certainly be impacted in a positive way from this experience.
THIS AND THAT:
- This short article comes from Marshall Memo 701, Sept. 4, 2017. The title: Being Candid Without Being a Jerk says it all. Having difficult conversations is part of your job. You may not think of persistence being connected to having tough conversations, but I believe it is. I agree with the author who suggests you shouldn’t have these conversations when “you can’t wait any more” to have them. In doing so you’ve waited too long and you won’t be in the right frame of mind. Ask yourself if there someone you should be having a conversations with, but have been putting off?
- Much has been said regarding having and promoting a growth mindset. If you believe one’s words can either build up or diminish a growth mindset, then these two pages of sentence starters should be helpful. Let me know if/how you share these at your building and I’d be happy to pass this along to others within our Tribe so we can continue to learn from each other!
- As you may recall, I spoke with you (principals) regarding the thought of having your students participate in the Student Wellness Survey every other year – and leave the off-year (and very similar) other survey alone. All of you agreed this would work. So, every other year the Student Wellness Survey will be conducted – starting this year. The window is basically February – March. I’ve added a number of documents related to this survey in our TRIBE Data folder, and linked to them here. These include a Parent Permission letter in both Spanish and English, a FAQ and Timeline handout (more for you than parents), and a Sample Survey. Let me know if you have any questions regarding any of these and thank you for participating! I’ll pass along more info regarding this year’s survey when I receive it.
- Here is an opportunity and local resource that you might consider becoming involved with: My name is Spring Olson, I own the Central Oregon Seed Exchange and also function as an science and agricultural educator here in Deschutes County. We are expanding our Seed to Schools program this year (we provide a vegetable or flower seed packet to each child per school) from Elk Meadow Elementary School into more schools here locally. If you have any classes that might need seed for growing or educational purposes, let me know…here to help!
Spring Alaska Olson
Owner/Principal Ecologist
[email protected]
541-647-9604
REMINDERS:
- We’ll be meeting as a Horizontal on Monday at PCMS, from 3:15 – 4:45. Here is the agenda. Please bring your laptop. I’ll work to get us started and ended on time, so please arrive a bit before 3:15 if possible. See you all there!
- We are currently in the assessment window for round two of ACT Aspire testing this year. The window dates are 1/8 – 2/16. Make sure you have students take the interim 2 assessments.
- These are not reminders (yet), but I encourage you to put them in your calendar now so they can be reminders to you in the months ahead. First, there will also be another Take It Up training on Aug. 12 & 13. (If you did not attend this training this past fall, I encourage you to come yourself, as well as bring a team from your school. Guaranteed you’ll be changed.) Second, there will be a year-two of a Safety Summit on Aug. 23, 2018.